if Lovecraft laughed

[sergebroom]

"You woke up the baby!"

Thus does HellBoy berate the Forces of Darkness when they succeed in raising Something Big from beneath the Earth in the coming attraction for HellBoy 2: The Golden Army, which I caught on Saturday when we saw Forbidden Kingdom. I liked that movie, but I should have loved it, especially with Jet Li playing the Monkey King. Oh well. As for HellBoy 2, well, let's say that I am eagerly awaiting the late July opening of a movie that asks what if Lovecraft could laugh. The whole gang is back, including Jeffrey Tambor - I guess HellBoy and Liz remembered having left their boss behind in that Labyrinth of Doom back in Russia. Spanish director Guillermo del Toro is back at the helm for a movie that he (fan of Mike Mignola's comic-book that he is) was determined to see happen, and which was originally going to go the direct-to-video route until Pan's Labyrinth got him so much clout in Hollywood that of course HB2 wound up becoming a theatrical release. By the way, it's very interesting to see del Toro easily switching between his Hollywood work and made-in-Spain movies like The Devil's Backbone. Not everybody can do that. Look at what the directors of Amélie did with the 4th Alien movie.

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Guillermo del Toro is Mexican, not Spanish, Serge.


I always confuse Jeffrey Tambor with Hector Elizondo for some reason.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

How embarassing. My face is all red, isn't it? Oh, wait. It always is. Anyway, it's neat when comic-book fans actually are the creative forces behind a comics-based movie.

Tambor and Elizondo? One does wonder how one could be confused with the other. True, they both have sparse cranial pilosity. Tambor though worked with Amanda pays on Max Headroom. What does that have to do with anything? Nothing, really.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Only when you're channelling HellBoy....

It's the scarce pilosity, I suppose.